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Paul Hardy has a large circle of friends and is very popular at parties. Everybody admires
him for his sense of humour – everybody except his own little daughter Julie.
Recently, one of his closest friends asked him to make a speech at his wedding reception.
This is the sort of thing that Paul really loves. He prepared his speech carefully and went to the wedding with Julie. He had included a large number of funny stories in the speech and, of course, it was a great success. As soon as he had finished, Julie told him that she wanted them to go home. Paul was a little shocked by this, but he loved his daughter very much and did what she asked. On the way home he asked Julie whether she had enjoyed his speech. To his surprise, she said she hadn’t. When he asked her why this was so, she replied that she did not like to see so many people laugh at him.

Paul Hardy is fun to be with because of his good sense of humour.

Paul is a single parent and he takes Julie with him wherever he goes.

Although Paul improvised his speech, it was very well received by everyone.

Paul and Julie left the wedding reception before it was over.

Julie failed to see the real reason why people laughed when her father spoke.

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The next morning the ship was still in the same place so I went on board again. I did so every day, and by the time I had been thirteen days on the island, I had made eleven trips to the wreck and taken away everything that my one pair of hands could carry.
   As I was preparing to go to the wreck for the twelfth time, a strong wind started blowing.
But the tide was still low, so I took my clothes off, swam to the ship and got on board without difficulty. Again I found a number of useful things to take and among them a pipe and some tobacco, two or three razors, a pair of large scissors and about a dozen of good knives and forks.
Then, in one of the drawers which I thought I had completely emptied before, I found some gold and silver coins worth all together about ?36. At their sight I smiled and cried, “What are you good for?! One of those knives is worth more than all of you! I’ll just leave you here!” However, upon thinking about it again, I took all the coins and started making another raft for the new things I had collected.
   In a quarter of an hour the sky got dark, the wind was blowing stronger and stronger, and I had to get back to the shore before the tide started flowing in. It was very hard to swim to the shore, partly because of the weight of the things I had with me and partly because of the strong wind and the rough water. But, this time, I was lucky. I had got to my tent with all the things I had recovered just before a storm broke out.
    The wind blew very hard all night and in the morning, when I looked out, the ship was gone. I was sorry, but at the same time I was glad to think I had lost no time in getting out of the wreck all the things that could be useful to me.
I should also say that we had taken on board the ship two cats and a dog. Fortunately, these animals were saved from the wreck, too. When I first came on board, they heard me moving about and ran up to me showing signs of their joy at seeing me again. I was glad tosee them too and to have them as my companions. I took the cats on my first raft. I was going to take the dog later, but he jumped out of the ship and swam after me, getting to the shore with the raft. He was a faithful servant to me for a number of years. At times I was only so
very sorry that he could not talk.

As the story opens the narrator

The narrator gets to the ship by

On his twelfth trip to the wrecked ship the narrator did NOT take any

The ship disappeared

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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It's part of the New Year ritual – an annual attempt to start afresh and turn over a new leaf.
But making resolutions is almost a pointless exercise, psychologists say. We break them, become discouraged in the process and finally more depressed and pessimistic than we were before.
  Less than a quarter of those surveyed for a university study had managed to stick to their resolutions. Of those who failed, many had followed the false advice of self-help gurus.
  Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, who conducted the survey, said he and his team had asked 700 people about their strategies for achieving New Year resolutions. Their goals ranged from losing weight or giving up smoking to gaining a qualification or starting a better relationship.
Of the seventy-eight percent who failed, many had focused on the downside of not achieving the goals; they had suppressed their desires, fantasized about being very successful, and adopted an impossible role model or relied on willpower alone.
  "Many of these ideas are frequently recommended by self-help experts but our results
suggest that they simply don't work," Wiseman said. "If you are trying to lose weight, it's not
enough to stick a picture of a model on your fridge or fantasize about being slimmer."
  On the other hand, people who kept their resolutions reported to have broken their goal
into smaller steps and rewarded themselves when they achieved one of these. They also told
their friends about their goals, focused on the benefits of success and kept a diary of their
progress.
  People who planned a series of smaller steps as stepping stones to their large goals had an average success rate of thirty-five percent, while those who followed all five of the above strategies had a fifty percent chance of success, the study found.
  "Many of the most successful techniques involve making a plan and helping yourself stick
to it," Wiseman said.
  Making New Year resolutions at the last minute can backfire and not produce the desired effect, he warned, because such decisions tend to be less genuinely motivated. "If you do it on the spur of the moment, it probably doesn't mean that much to you and you won't do your best to succeed."
  Other strategies that helped people to achieve their goals included making only one
resolution at a time and treating occasional failure as just temporary.

New Year’s resolutions are

Which is NOT among the resolutions mentioned by the subjects in Richard Wiseman’s study?

The best way to achieve your goal is to

What does NOT contribute to success in keeping your resolutions?

Overall, how many of the people in Richard Wiseman’s study successfully stuck to their New Year’s resolutions?

In 1922, after three decades of digging into the massive limestone mountains in Egypt's Valley of Kings, the archeologist Howard Carter ________upon a discovery that would seal his name in history: the tomb of Tutankhamen.

School exams find out how much knowledge we have _______ in the course of our studies.

When one’s sleep is _______ and this may lead to problems in concentrating during the day.

Intelligence is the speed at which we can understand and _______ to new situations.

It has long been accepted that a healthy Mediterranean diet kept the French among the _______ nations in Europe, despite their love of red wine.

A person’s IQ is their intelligence _______ it is measured by a special test.

I don’t believe ____________________ punished for misbehaviour.

Nobody ____________________ complications to arise out of such a trivial matter.

The new employee has been working ____________________ than anybody else on this project.

They were ____________________ lovely couple ____________________ no one ever suspected their marriage was on the rocks.

My friends and I ____________________ on picnics almost every weekend last summer.